Our family recently lost my two childhood pets within the last month. They were card-carrying members of my family as much as myself or my sister, so the losses have been excruciating to me, as well as the rest of my family. I am trying to organize a unique, but honorable memorial for my family. Both dogs are being cremated. They will be kept in urns, and passed around for a while as we grieve, but eventually the ashes will have to be "disposed" of, together. I mean, You can't keep it forever. You can't take it with you, right? This is where I call upon the collective clutchfans consciousness: What are some cool-but-not-tacky, unique ways to say goodbye to the ashes but still have some sort of locale or remnant to hold onto, even if it is only an abstraction? Both of them hated water, so throw out that option. I'm really just interested to hear your suggestions, and draw on the bbs creativity, because mine has been drained.
http://www.lifegem.com/ /thread They turn ashed into diamonds. You can wear your pets for the rest of your life.
"When I die, don't toll no bells Just put my ashes in some shotgun shells Gather all my friends some windy day Say goodbye and watch me blow away." -- Joe Ely http://www.myholysmoke.com/About.html
But honestly, I think it depends what they enjoyed doing. Water dogs, spread ashes over their favorite lake (but, this wont work for you). Was their favorite thing car rides? If so, spread them out the window while driving along their favorite spots. If they really liked dog parks, do it there. Just don't do it when alot of people are around, I think it might be frowned on. If they loved to dig up your garden, spread the ashes there. If they liked to sit under a big oak tree in your yard, do it there. I guess what I'm getting at is figure out what they enjoyed doing, and do something along those lines. Sorry to hear about your poochies. It's always tough losing a dog... I was depressed longer after my dog died than all my late grandparents (probably combined).
Yeah. I can bling out until I die and my dipsh!t heirs pawn them off and they sit in some washed out trophy wive's dresser for years. I want something a little less material.
Honestly, what they really love to do, they loved to eat. One died old and decrepit but went out chasing down every ******* crumb in the house. The other was young, and was killed by another dog at the kennel we placed her at. I really like your tree idea. Is there a way to have say, a tree, continually fed by the nutrient/ash compost as opposed to just dumping it in the topsoil? Now we're cooking.
what I did with one of my dogs, was I just buried the box with the ashes in my yard, so they always be there with you. You could a memory service in your yard, and in the end burying the box.
I'm going to do lines of my dog's ashes off of a hooker's ass when they go. It's kind of like having a mullet, classy but also says that I like to party.
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It's certainly a novel way of remembering your loved ones but it's macabre knowing you're wearing someone's 'soul' around your finger or neck. I couldn't do it myself. It would make my skin crawl.
Not trying to derail your thread, and I didn't want to create a new thread for this, but I just had to put my pet of 15 years to sleep today. It was the absolute hardest thing I've ever had to do in my life.....literally everything in my house reminds me of him, and I miss him so much already. Condolences to you and your family. I hope you guys figure out a way to honor their memory appropriately. BTW, coping with this gets easier with time, right? Because, I gotta say, I'm feeling pretty s***ty right now.
Trust me, I feel you man. Time is the b****, and the solution. It does get easier. Life is suffering though, and you should be so lucky to be "arrogant" enough to forget it all and just f**king live for a moment. Lean on those around you. You'd be surprised at some of the sources you can draw strength from if you are truly seeking. Sounds like you were very lucky to have had your time with him, and that's all you can ask you for really.
what if you move for some reason?you're going to have to go pet semetary on the yard! I think you should just go to beach and empty them out with nature. Ugh, I hate the thought of Anakin dying. =(
This is my issue. We buried my first dog at my old house, which well, is someone else's house now. It haunts me to this day that we left her there. I still think about hopping the fence and digging her up. Seriously. It kills me. I think Big Mak is really onto something with this tree thing. Apparently if you put the ashes/nutrients in a cedar urn under the tree, the nutrients will continually feed the tree, for years even (depending on the type of tree.) It's still affixed and corporeal, but at least that tree can be tended to unto I am gone, and will eventually become someone else's tree. Can't pawn a tree. Also, it appears that the correct term is "cremains" and not cremations, although my spellcheck begs to differ. Hm. Cremains sounds much more macabre, but I guess that makes more sense linguistically.
I put my dog of 15 years to sleep recently. I think that it is much harder to put them to sleep than it is to have them naturally die. I was pretty upset about it. We just buried him next to my other dog. Hopefully the house stays in the family. That diamond thing is ridiculous!
well about haunting you about leaving your dog somehwere else, could happen in anything you do, If you spread the ashes in the park/sea/etc. then you left your dog there and still could hunt you.
